Competencies and objectives

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Course context for academic year 2015-16

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Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2015-16

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2015-16

The course "Discourse and gender" is designed to introduce students to one topic in sociolinguistics, the interrelationship between the use of language in communication is various social situations -discourse- and gender. A recurrent finding in studies in this field is that discourse reflects, records and transmits social differences and/or inequalities. Therefore, it is not surprising that, as most societies -including Western industrialized societies- differentiate between men and women in various marked ways, we will also find reflexes of gender differences both in features of language as a code and in the way it is used in communication by women and men in a variety of social contexts. A general aim of the course is to guide students through selected readings on the subject of discourse and gender, which will provide an insight into the way the field has developed since the mid-1970s, and give a sense of the breadth of research going on as well as the variety of theoretical and methodological approaches found. Further, the course is designed to awaken students¿ awareness of the social background, causes and consequences of much of gender-differentiated language structure and language use. A third aim is to prepare students to undertake small investigations of phenomena related to language, communication and gender.

 

 

General

Code: 8932
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS:
Theoretical credits: 1,00
Practical credits: 5,00
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Departments involved

  • Dept: ENGLISH STUDIES
    Area: ENGLISH STUDIES
    Theoretical credits: 1
    Practical credits: 5
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